Over two decades of integration-based, geometric flow visualization

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1807-1829

  McLoughlin, Tony ^a   Laramee, Robert S ^a   Peikert, Ronald ^b   Post, Frits H ^c   Chen, Min ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

flow visualization; time dependent data; vector fields

Indexed keywords

DATA VISUALIZATION; GEOMETRY; VELOCITY; VISUALIZATION;

DISCRETE OBJECTS; STATE OF THE ART; TIME-DEPENDENT DATA; UNSOLVED PROBLEMS; VECTOR FIELDS; VISUALIZATION METHOD; VISUALIZATION RESEARCH; VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUE;

FLOW VISUALIZATION;

EID: 77956640512     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: 14678659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2010.01650.x     Document Type: Article

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